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r A .A Request to City Council: We are asking to be issued a building permit to proceed w ith the repair of our deck without obtaining a site survey of 1020 N. Brown Road. Reasons request should be granted 1. We are REPAIRING an existing deck - not adding a new structure. Wc otiginally planned to replace a tew rotted boards but had to replace the existing joists due to more extensive rot. The removal of the joists triggered the need for the building permit and we were told by the city engineer that he docs not have the authority to issue any building permit without a site survey. 2. The deck does not extend beyond the footprint of the house. The deck is being built in an L-shaped comer of the house between the screen porch and the garage. The house, screen porch and deck were all present when we bought the property. The title company required the property be surveyed at that time to ensure that all structures were within the property lines including easements. It was determined at that time that the structures arc well within the boundaries. 3. The replacement deck is the same design as the previous deck. It is in fact slightly smaller than the original which further ensures that there is no possible w ay that the deck will extend beyond the footprint of the house. 4. The site survey is an unnecessary expense for this project and will add hundreds of dollars of additional expense without adding any value to the homeowTier or the community. This project started as a simple repair job and is already several thousand dollars more expensive than we had planned to spend. We will be bound by the building inspections which will ensure that we do not deviate from the original plan. 5. The requu'cment of a site survey will also delay our repair for weeks, which will reduce the time we have to enjoy our repaired deck over the summer and may cause us to leave the repair until next year. It would be J